St Augustine quotes

 

🔵 AUGUST 31

⏮️ A month-end recap of St Augustine quotes ⏮️

✳️ No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men 

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ The measure of love is to love without measure

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Charity is no substitute for justice withheld

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ This joy in God is not like any pleasure found in physical or intellectual satisfaction. Nor is it such as a friend experiences in the presence of a friend. But, if we are to use any such analogy, it is more like the eye rejoicing in light.

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you

— SAINT AUGUSTINE

✳️ The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳ Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ HOPE has two beautiful daughters. Their names are ANGER and COURAGE; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ People travel to wonder

at the height of the mountains,

at the huge waves of the seas,

at the long course of the rivers,

at the vast compass of the ocean,

at the circular motion of the stars,

and yet they pass by themselves

without wondering

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ HOPE has two beautiful daughters. Their names are ANGER and COURAGE; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are

— ST AUGUSTINE

✳️ Some people, in order to discover God, read a book. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above and below, note, read... he put in front of your eyes the very things that he made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

— ST AUGUSTINE

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